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    Selected Philippine Political Caricature

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    The document discusses a book by Alfred McCoy entitled "Philippine Cartoons: Political Caricature of the American Era 1900-1940" which compiles political cartoons from the American colonial period in the Philippines. The cartoons depict the challenges and influence brought by American colonization. As a historian of Southeast Asian studies, McCoy provides context and analysis of the turbulent political period in the Philippines shown through the cartoons. The cartoons allow future generations to glimpse Philippine society in the past and serve as a reference for understanding politics and history through visual representation.

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    The document discusses a book by Alfred McCoy entitled "Philippine Cartoons: Political Caricature of the American Era 1900-1940" which compiles political cartoons from the American colonial period in the Philippines. The cartoons depict the challenges and influence brought by American colonization. As a historian of Southeast Asian studies, McCoy provides context and analysis of the turbulent political period in the Philippines shown through the cartoons. The cartoons allow future generations to glimpse Philippine society in the past and serve as a reference for understanding politics and history through visual representation.

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    The document discusses a book by Alfred McCoy entitled "Philippine Cartoons: Political Caricature of the American Era 1900-1940" which compiles political cartoons from the American colonial period in the Philippines. The cartoons depict the challenges and influence brought by American colonization. As a historian of Southeast Asian studies, McCoy provides context and analysis of the turbulent political period in the Philippines shown through the cartoons. The cartoons allow future generations to glimpse Philippine society in the past and serve as a reference for understanding politics and history through visual representation.

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    Selected Philippine Political Caricature

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    The document discusses a book by Alfred McCoy entitled "Philippine Cartoons: Political Caricature of the American Era 1900-1940" which compiles political cartoons from the American colonial period in the Philippines. The cartoons depict the challenges and influence brought by American colonization. As a historian of Southeast Asian studies, McCoy provides context and analysis of the turbulent political period in the Philippines shown through the cartoons. The cartoons allow future generations to glimpse Philippine society in the past and serve as a reference for understanding politics and history through visual representation.

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    Selected Philippine Political Caricature

    The caricatures are a graphic depiction of the events that went on under the American
    colonial period, all the challenges, scandals and influence brought to the Filipinos by the
    Americans. Those prewar caricatures that were seen on the book entitled “Philippine Cartoons:
    Political Caricature of the American Era 1900-1940” written by Alfred W. McCoy made a
    history that will never be forgotten by many.

    Alfred McCoy is a professor of Southeast Asian History at the University of Wisconsin at


    Madison where he also serves as director of the Center for SE Asian studies. He spent the past
    thirty years in writing about Southeast Asian History and politics. After earning a Ph.D. in
    Southeast Asian History at Yale, the writings of McCoy on this region has focused on two topics,
    Philippine political history and global opium trafficking.

    Philippine political cartoons gained full expression during the American era. Filipino
    artists recorded national attitudes toward the coming of the Americans as well as the changing
    more and times. While the cartoons compiled in this book speak for themselves, historian Alfred
    McCoy’s extensive research in Philippine and American archives provides a comprehensive
    background not only to the cartoons but to the turbulent period as well. Alfredo Roces, who
    designed the document, contributes an essay on Philippine graphic satire of the period.

    The importance of the text is that future generations will be able to have a glimpse of the
    past Philippine society through these cartoons. Also, it serves as a study and reference tool for
    further generations. Through the use of political cartoons, people get to visualize politics and
    appreciate the representations which are within their worldview.

    The text contribution to understanding Philippine History is that the works of art
    editorials in the study of history is a good strategy to make students more engaged in learning the
    course. People’s opinions, sentiments and aspirations of the time they were published can be
    reflected and analyzed in the works of art. Its role and importance must be reevaluated since it is
    a powerful medium in the context of different events in the Philippine History.

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